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Haadi

Gender
Boy
Say it
HAA-dee
Origin
Arabic
UK rank, 2025
#1,080 for boys
US rank, 2025
#8,906 for boys

Haadi is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “guide”. In 2025 it ranked 1,080th for boys in the UK (30 babies) and 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).

What does Haadi mean?

Arabic: spelling of Hadi

“guide”

Spelling of Hadi; Al-Hadi, the Guide, is one of the 99 names of God in Islam.

Is Haadi a girl's or a boy's name?

Haadi is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 boys in the UK and 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Haadi in the UK?

Rank in 2025
1,080th among boys
Babies in 2025
30 about 1 in 10,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steady up 19% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 30 boys in the UK were named Haadi, making it the 1,080th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,105th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 42 boys.

Half of all the boys named Haadi in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 126 boys in the UK were given Haadi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #379, up from #1,080 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 1,007th in England and Wales.

2003Busiest: 42 in 20222025
Haadi in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202530#1,080
202428#1,111
202328#1,131
202242#829
202136#931
202027#1,105
201919#1,412
201826#1,142
201724#1,222
201618#1,512
201521#1,324
201410#2,207
201312#1,901
201211#2,080
20117#2,736
201012#1,887
200910#2,084
200810#2,048
200712#1,760
20065#3,013
20056#2,545
20043#3,792
20036#2,283

How popular is Haadi in the US?

Rank in 2025
8,906th among boys
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 210,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steady down 13% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Haadi, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,694th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 20 boys. It first appears in the records in 1999.

2025 had fewer boys named Haadi than any year since 2010.

Half of all the boys named Haadi in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 150 boys in the US were given Haadi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,174, up from #8,906 for this spelling alone.

1999Busiest: 20 in 20202025
Haadi in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20258#8,906
202418#5,237
202313#6,512
202213#6,473
202120#4,776
202020#4,694
20199#8,209
201816#5,536
201718#5,107
201615#5,785
201518#5,056
201411#7,043
20139#8,113
201210#7,553
201110#7,495
20106#10,759
200912#6,798
200815#5,762
200713#6,259
20068#8,726
20058#8,292
20047#8,921
20036#9,574
20025#10,660
20016#9,236
20000–
19995#9,905

Names like Haadi

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Haadi

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Haadi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/haadi, updated 20 October 2026.